(AFX UK Focus) 2010-03-23 08:50 Merck KGaA to issue bonds regularly -CFO in paper

(AFX UK Focus) 2010-03-23 08:50 Merck KGaA to issue bonds regularly -CFO in paper
FRANKFURT, March 23 (Reuters) – German pharmaceutical company Merck KGaA expects to raise funds on the bond market on a regular basis, its chief financial officer said in a newspaper interview. “Under our (bond) programme we will regularly act as an issuer on the bond market,” Michael Becker told Boersen-Zeitung in an interview published on Tuesday. Last week, Merck issued a 3.2 billion euro ($4 …

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GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer Will Supply 600M Doses Of Reduced-Price Pneumococcal Vaccines To Developing Countries Over 10 …

GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer Will Supply 600M Doses Of Reduced-Price Pneumococcal Vaccines To Developing Countries Over 10 …
The GAVI Alliance on Tuesday formally announced that drugmakers GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer had signed off on a “10-year deal … to supply 60 million doses a year of cut-price pneumococcal vaccines to developing nations,” Reuters reports. The agreement is under what’s “called an Advance Market Commitment (AMC) which guarantees a market for vaccines supplied to poor nations but sets a maximum …

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